[jpsb]

I wrote this for two reasons one I think it is time to legalize marijuana and two I finally got around to getting my web server back on line after EVERYTHING got wiped out in hurricane Ike so I wanted to test it.

[Clintonfatigued]

I'm not a drug user, but the war on drugs is not a success and a lot of Americans have had their rights trampled on for a relatively minor offense (smoking weed). I wish more conservatives would speak out against it.

[arthurus]

and the breakup of families effected should it be

Affected.

[KoRn]

We as a population haven’t learned a DAMN THING from the most recent prohibition of nearly 100 years ago. Every time a prohibition against anything where there is a demand, it will FAIL, and the prohibition itself is more harmful to society than what all the nanny state ‘doo-gooders’ are looking to prohibit.

The bottom line is YOU CAN’T CHANGE BEHAVIOR. If someone wants to use drugs, they’ll do it. The more you try to use the force(farce) of the government/law to change that behavior, the more harm will be done.

[guitarplayer1953]

I have a friend who has Hep-3 fibromialga and can not take drugs due to the harm full effects they have on his liver. He lives in a state that does not have medical weed and he has to buy from other people. Smoking weed has not caused him to seek out other drugs that some claim that weed is a gateway to other drugs. He works when he can stand to due to the pain levels he has to endure. The weed takes the edge off his pain and does not harm his liver.

with that said I for one am in favor of the legalization of weed. The war on drugs has been as successful as the war on poverty.

[count-your-change]

“Marijuana users are not drug crazed criminals looking to rob and mane. They just hungry munchkins out to get a bag of chips”.

But the people who supply the dope are and their products are blood stained.

[donna]

Throw them all in jail - otherwise taxpayers will be forced to pay their medical costs.

Jail is cheaper.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We are spending 40 billion plus a years to throw pot heads in jail.

But if it saves one conservative child from a lifetime of listening to the Grateful Dead, it's all worth it. /s

[Pipe Dog]

Cold frosty beer is my preference but I do know people that are pot smokers. Compared to the dope smokers I know, there are worse criminals roaming the halls of congress.

[Old Sarge]